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Empowering enabling inventions of our lifetime over to a handful of multi-billion dollar corporations the companies argue they need the money internet users are demanding faster connections for ever more devices and that infrastructure will add to billions in costs to their balance sheets that has already been legal opposition to the ruling. but for now it's a victory of light touch regulation of a big government of corporate america over the average internet user. who here with me in the studio is teresa locker editor motherboard great to have you with us today hi there now if this decision h...

Every internet user in this country. that means you. let's look at what net neutrality actually is. it's the idea all data must be treated equally. free speech on the internet but stopping providers from speeding up or slowing down traffic on their network. the idea has been around since the early 2000s but it wasn't until 2015 when the fcc used the communications act to pass rules making the concept policy. and giving the commission more oversight on telecommunications companies. now the chairman wants to undo all of that. what happens if he is successful? service providers could decide which...

To try to do that. the veterans committee is working on this and trying to get it done. they know how important it is, how the veterans are suffering. we'll have to see if there's movement going forward. >> shepard: the president has been seeking some legislative victories in his first 100 days. he's had a lot of executive orders, which republicans by the way -- when obama was doing them, they said he was czarring up the place but this is how presidents can get things done. the president said he's going to do this and he's doing it. but on the legislative side, he's batting zero. >> yeah, you'...

Stop. changing your password can help if you know the web sites affected have fixed it, so, basically, avoid web sites that haven't put up a patch. any way, even if you do it all, consumers are still threatened. >> to be honest, there's not much that an average consumer, average internet user can do because you're at the her is city of the services that you -- the mercy of the services that you use, the web sites that you go to. if you were to change your password, unfortunately, someone might be able to pull it back down again. >> reporter: a lot of high-tech speak, the people at home has no ...

Websites that we use and they'll put up the updates of whether they've put in the patch, as it's called. once that's done, then you can change your password. experts will tell you that while changing passwords can help, but avoiding the websites that haven't put up this patch, that's where consumers can help themselves. >> to be honest, there's not much that an average consumer, average internet user can do because you're at the mercy of the services that you use, the websites that you go to. if you were to change your password right now, unfortunately someone might be able to pull it back dow...